When the unrideable gets rideable.
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- Lago-Di-Garda-spring-09
- Category
- All Mountain/Enduro
- Date Posted
- Apr 15, 2009 at 8:20Apr 15, 2009
- Location
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Lokeren, Belgium
- Trail
- you name it
- Riders
- Jan Geerts
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konagoern
(May 5, 2009 at 16:12)
that needs crazyness!!
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i can see why people would say it is fake or photoshopped cause is is freekin' unbelievable, but because it is legit, all those non-believers can shove off... hats off to you sir, you've done what nearly all wouldn't have the balls to attempt. Well deserved POD, couldn't imagin the rush of that ride....
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to sam: give me your email-adress and I send you the not compressed 5MB pic. directly from my camera so you can zoom in better. (panasonic DMC-TZ5) it's taken with 10x optic zoom from a distance of about 50 meters.
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Last summer I already rode the steps when there was no water coming down. So I knew already which steps I was able to ride and which ones I had to hop down on the back wheel as I used to do in trails competition. I used maxxis minion DHF 42a 2.5 UST with less than 2 bar in it to have maximum grip. I have the non compressed picture in 4.3 MB size on my computer.
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Looks like the spillway of a dam. Perhaps designed to allow some aquatic life to ascend into the dam or perhaps just to look pretty. I'm sure this is not the ONLY photo on the internet of this place.
The drop behind the rider looks about five feet high. It looks perfectly doable for a good rider. Not photoshopped. Why would anyone bother?
If nosewheely told us the name of the place you could Google images in a heartbeat - probably with people standing in front of the drops. And then everyone who says its photoshopped would look like a tool!
POD!
The drop behind the rider looks about five feet high. It looks perfectly doable for a good rider. Not photoshopped. Why would anyone bother?
If nosewheely told us the name of the place you could Google images in a heartbeat - probably with people standing in front of the drops. And then everyone who says its photoshopped would look like a tool!
POD!
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Okay,
1. punch 'lago di tenno, italy' into google maps.
2. go about 500 metres to the south west of the bottom left hand corner of the lake.
3. Change to the satellite view if you aren't already.
That long caterpiller looking thing is the 'stairway'.
If someone can find a link to a tourist's photo of the thing, post the link please. I'm done.
I'm still trying to find a tourist shot of the thing.
but still my eyes closed 
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dude if only i had a bike and an opportunity i would do some stupid but awesome shit like that but anyway very sick a people check this out its such a better pic of this
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
- 1 0
why doesn't the location of the picture be given, then we can see for ourselves online using google earth or other pictures of it...where exactly is it?
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If you think it's fake check this out
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
- 0 1
i think it could be fake because the "tree" beside the rider is clearly a weed and if it was a tree then the guy is like 3 times fatter than the tree trunk also he guys darker than everything else witch could indacate 2 seprate light sorces from 2 completly diffrent photos.
not saying its defo fake and etheir way i think it deserved the POD
P.S.the views and opinions (and bad spelling) expressed in this coment are not those of stuart0793, im his friend who has his password
not saying its defo fake and etheir way i think it deserved the POD
P.S.the views and opinions (and bad spelling) expressed in this coment are not those of stuart0793, im his friend who has his password
- 0 2
Lol, if it is real (which it problably isnt), what is the point than of only taking a picture, if he would've done this, there would shorly have been some sort of recording of it.
You dont do this once in a lifetime and only take 1 photo of the big thing....
Nais anyway
You dont do this once in a lifetime and only take 1 photo of the big thing....
Nais anyway
- 1 3
it is a good POD and all but to me it looks fake but it doesnt matter if its photoshop or not in my mind to me all it has to be is a good picture which this is so definatly POD worthy
- 119 12
I had Jan As a guide in Italy last summer at belive me for real the guy is crazy.
so NO its not a fake pic.
- 10 3
Oh my god. It is real. That is insane!
http://picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#
Click on that and zoom and and you can clearly tell its real.
http://picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#
Click on that and zoom and and you can clearly tell its real.
- 4 4
I remember Hans Rey doing something similar, back a couple of years ago.
www.spiffie.com/trials/pics/hans-02.jpg
Anyway, this is pretty sick!
www.spiffie.com/trials/pics/hans-02.jpg
Anyway, this is pretty sick!
- 5 2
thats such a cool pic. when you look at the small link photo it just looks like a load of waterfalls but then when you go to the big one yoyu see one insane freerider
- 19 70
it is a fake because look at the size of the grass blades and the way the water is falling - theres no way its real
- 36 2
minifish, have you ever herd of BUSHES??? it's not 'giant' grass, there called bushes, and the water is falling as it should do (the whole water-fall is man made)and it is possibal if you'v got balls to spare! =P
- 11 1
its not photoshoped - if you zoom in on teh orriginal image you can tell picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike
- 23 2
HAHAHAHA OMG OMG OMG
it took me about 10 looks at the pic to find a rider, i was looking at it like wtf is this here as pod for there is nothing about biking, 5 mins later, still looking and 'oh, there he is'
haha
- 9 0
whats everyones problem with this photo, its def real, not shopped, 2bh i believe he rode the whole thing, but he could of just as easily walked there and just rolled on that one flat section for the photo, but grow up people, and give the photo and rider props, looks dope and fun 2 me 
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Of course it's not Photoshopped. Although I couldn't ride it, it's just a series of pretty small drop off's... Not anything particularly ground breaking.
- 6 1
that is either one very very small man on a very very small bike, or it is a very big waterfall thingymajig. watever it is it deservs one very big POD!
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it's real check out the original pic, if you zoom in it all comes together picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike
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look again about those 10 foot drops. closer to 5 at most with big runouts. the cracks between the rocks are easily ridden and the water level is below the rocks, not about to sweep anything away. i'd ride that anytime. its amazing, but calm down. and there's no need to fake something which is not that insane.
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I'll agree with that. Lots of people love to doubt and rip things apart. A bit of scepticism is good, but it easily goes too far.
I love trials, in its own right. But the skills learned have made me a much better rider/freerider for sure.
Your picture is truly wild! Most people wouldn't even think to ride that!
Thanks for sharing it.
Matt
I love trials, in its own right. But the skills learned have made me a much better rider/freerider for sure.
Your picture is truly wild! Most people wouldn't even think to ride that!
Thanks for sharing it.
Matt
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You're fucking right man! Trials rock and build some serious skills that makes you gain loads of speed on the trails! Rock on!
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If you think it's fake check this out
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
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Ok, I want to believe its real, and when you zoom in on the photo, the riders pixels match perfectly fine with the surrounding pixels, but how does showing the pic on picasa prove anything different?
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because you can see, that as you said "the pixels match PERFECT". There is no such thing as perfect in photoshop. teh rider is equally as focused as the rocks which means the lens used has the same focal length when shooting both, the chances of two things being shot at seperate places, maybe even with different camera's and lenses' and turning out the same is going to be pretty weird.
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If you think it's fake check this out
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
picasaweb.google.be/nosewheely/ForPinkbike#5338129299263976050
I hope you realize your wrong
- 1 0
dude the "small sticks" are called Small logs, oh and zoom in and check out the "grass" its got leaves and branches... its most probably a man made waterfall(like this one?)
ITS NOT EDITED!
ITS NOT EDITED!
or these days sky scrapers...
